Xia Qingyu stayed in Seattle for three days, and only went to Los Angeles on the last day of siggraph 2010. In the past three days, Ye Shenxi can be described as a dual-purpose person, life is very important, and Xia Qingyu is naturally like a fish; The work was not idle, and he designed the levels of the mobile game he was going to do.

Of course not these three days, it has been more than two months since the start of construction from the design level in May, and he has done a total of 8 levels of the first version. Each level consists of 3 to 5 puzzles with a total of 35 levels, progressively more difficult and progressively longer.

According to his estimates, a player with a normal IQ, if he gropes for it by himself, it is estimated that it will take about 6 to 10 hours of time. Of course, it won't be in front.,There will be some levels in front that let them pass even if their thinking is not clear.,Messing around has a greater chance of passing.,After all, players say that they are strong.,It's even more fragile to say that it's even more so.,In the early stage of the game, you must give enough sweetness.。

After all, Hidetaka Miyazaki is still a minority.

Most designers don't just give sweetness, they also have to be very skillful, so that players feel that they have been rewarded for their own efforts or ingenuity, rather than being given by you. What if they can't figure it out on their own, you'll have to think of some ways to help them do it, and again, it's a bit too lo for some colors, bright lights, or sound cues in the scene, arrow guidance, cheat props, etc.

For the designer, some things are difficult to describe, whether in language or words, especially this is something to be handed over to Shan Jie to do, and it is a remote job for the time being, so he has to draw a bunch of sketches by himself.

The scene mechanism is restored as much as possible, including the shape of the appearance from all angles, and the annotation of the rotating area, all of which will be made clear.

At the beginning of Salmon Studio's new project, there was so much content to communicate with the members of the development team, so just like when he did "The Way of the Immortals", he sat in the middle of the staff, not in his office.

Unless Xia Qingyu beckoned him in.

So sometimes employees pass by him and can see him writing and drawing on a pen tablet.

He hasn't done this kind of work himself for a long time, and it is estimated that no one in the employees of Qingyu Network knows that he has this skill. The technology is just so-so, but this kind of schematic diagram does not require it to be good-looking, and the specific aesthetic design is left to Cao Ruoruo.

The employees here are quite accustomed to it, and many foreign producers started by teaching themselves programming and art to make independent games, and they have seen a lot of them.

He also changed the name of the project by the way, and the name of the game "Don't Believe the Eyes" announced four weeks ago was complained by many players and the media, who expressed their disbelief that Pasca's project had such a name...... It's too small...... Huh? It's a trivia game in itself.

It is estimated that on the one hand, the names of the previous projects are too tall, eternal, everything, survival, leisurely and the like, and now there is something else, the style does not match, and it seems a little abrupt. It is also the expectation of players for his project, even on the mobile side, the expectation value is also to go to the 3A masterpiece on the mobile side.

In fact, there are quite a lot of foreign things translated into such Chinese names, what don't mess with Zuohan, don't mess with ants, don't mess with children, etc., blame him for getting it wrong, this is the first to have a Chinese name and then translated into English.

Anyway, it didn't start publicity, that is, it was announced, and Ye Shenxi simply changed his name, "Homecoming Lost".

This name, even the background of the world view, tells the story of the protagonist who is lost in a strange world and finds his way home. In the process, I went through layers of levels, passed various tests, and finally returned to the story of home.

Quite simply, this is not a game that sells story......

Ye Shenxi sent his sketch to Cao Ruoruo and Shan Jie, and both of them were a little surprised: "Mr. Ye, you still have this." ”

Ye Shenxi replied: "Cao Ruoruo, just tell me how I painted." ”

Cao Ruoruo typed out a paragraph after a while: "You started to say that you will draw for me, I was still quite worried, thinking that you are so omnipotent, why do you want our subordinates to use it...... It's like the villain in the movie is obviously very capable of fighting, and when he fights, he has to send his minions to send a wave of experience to the protagonist first. ”

"Are you a sycophant or a complaint?" Shan Jie interjected in the group chat.

"When I saw what you painted, the stone in my heart was put down."

"Have you been getting skinny lately?" Ye Shenxi gave Xia Qingyu the original number of words to him.

Shan Jie began to study how to play the game, he had imagined it before, but it was relatively one-sided, Ye Shenxi talked about 8 types of optical illusions that can be put into the game to become gameplay, and he probably thought about three or four of them. He is not the kind of particularly divergent head, some things that are too whimsical are not so easy to perceive the essence, and now after reading Ye Shenxi's sketches, he has a clear understanding of some of the ideas that Ye Shenxi dictated before.

"That's how it works." Shan Jie came to his senses: "Mr. Ye, you draw so well, I can understand it at a glance." ”

Cao Ruoruo cares more about artistic expression, while Shan Jie values being able to accurately convey ideas.

Programming and art are two different camps, logical and divergent, rigorous and romantic, not so obvious in life, and the difference in work is quite large.

Of course, if you count the camp, they can also be regarded as allies, after all, they all have a common enemy, planning.

"Mr. Ye, you are really an all-rounder, you can do art, music, and programming." Shan Jie has been a bit of an addiction to shooting lately.

After all, there are so many wild mushrooms in the outside world, as they work with Ye Shenxi every day within the company, they naturally know more about Ye Shenxi's incredibleness than players, media, and other producers and industry celebrities.

Shan Jie has also been in this industry for many years, even if no matter what the specific design is, Ye Shenxi will come up with ideas like this, and then in the follow-up development process, he can ensure that the project team will never change the direction, he has never seen it.

There are too many reasons for a project, especially a large-scale project that lasts for one or two years, two or three years, to change direction in the middle of the process.

It may be that I found that what I thought was too good, and the technology was not up to it, so I designed something that couldn't be done.

Or after two years of doing it, I found that the general environment has changed, and I thought it was cool and felt before, and it was going to be popular, or someone else had already come out with a pair of products to squeeze the market into a red sea, or the trend was outdated, and players have gone after something fresher.

It may also be that the budget is overrun, or the budget is sufficient for successful financing, and the previous plan can or must be changed, cut down on the content or replaced with a luxury plan.

Too much.

But Ye Shenxi's project has never been, and what they discussed was some details and experience.

Even if some people in the project team initially had doubts about Ye Shenxi's plan, the results of the final game after its launch, and the feedback from players and the media, will prove to him that the reason why Mr. Pao is Mr. Pao is because he sees much farther than others.

Well, Ye Shenxi's original works were scored by himself, so he also had a little bit of a foundation for composition and keyboard playing, which was forced out by the environment at that time.

In the past year, I have often been guided by famous teachers like Murong, learned guitar and violin, and sometimes when I was depressed, I went to the "garbage dump" of the audio group to play and sing, and my mood was much better...... Murong Du said: "You treat my office as a KTV, ......"

"Okay, don't blow it yourself," Ye Shenxi said helplessly.

"Cao Ruoruo, the art style has told you before, I want a very delicate cartoon style, not necessarily cute, but it must be fresh, suitable for all ages, and as much as possible so that players can see as many details as possible. The color is bright, but not strong and dazzling, to ensure that the player will not cause eye discomfort after watching for a long time, and the color matching is at your own discretion. ”

"This is also the first time you have done something on the mobile side, after completion, try to see as much as possible on the mobile phone and tablet, even if it is the same picture, the effect seen on the computer display screen and the mobile phone and tablet is completely different, you know better than me about the various color temperature and color differences, I just remind you."

"Go back and draw up a timeline for me to complete the resources."

"Okay, I understand." Cao Ruoruo replied.

"Shan Jie, it's still the old rule, first classify the gameplay logic, sort it according to the difficulty and the number of times the design appears, set a priority and then develop, and start development first if it is urgent and important. I'm going to have a timeline for this too. ”

"Okay, Mr. Ye." Shan Jie also replied.

Ye Shenxi assigned the task, turned off the chat software, and went to Yang Shu again.

I care about playing project A.,And you have to care about project B.,I can only say that the other one is just a mobile phone project.,If two end games are really enough for him to eat a pot.,It's okay to do anything double-open......